Winter Ice
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Sorry about having been seriously AWOL (absent without leave)…. A week ago I got back from a week just north of San Francisco for my mom’s 89th birthday and have been scrambling ever since (making gifts, wrapping gifts, packaging and mailing gifts…). My dear and wonderful sister-in-law came up from LA (Joyce, my late half-brother’s widow) to Mom’s in the Bay Area, too. It was a wonderful reunion… wish we weren’t so far apart! We need to do that more! I’ll blog about that trip, dyeing fabric (which is the closes I’ve come to quilting in too long a while), and the Frayed Edges December meeting (which DOES involve a quilt…Kathy’s work of wonder!) in the coming week or two…. I expect everyone else is as swamped as I am!
We had a significant Nor’easter on Sunday which added another 8 inches of snow to the nearly 10 on the ground—before the temperature started rising twenty degrees at about 6 pm (from low 20s to 40 at 11 pm!) and it turned to rain, which sank to the bottom of the snow and made the Mid-Coast of Maine a skating rink…sidewalks are hazardous. But the landscape is glorious.
The Frayed Edges are intrepid (and busy) souls, so three of us gathered at Kate’s house in Bowdoinham despite the storm and resulting yuck on the roads–we just drove veeerrrrryyyyy sllllowwwwwlllyyyyyy. Deborah, living near Dallas, was with us in spirit and our hearts, as was Hannah who was home with a sick daughter (bummers for both!). On the way, I snapped these pics of the ice on the trees about a mile from Kate’s… what awesome beauty!